Last week, our private's CCO had a meeting with us and DC to ask about ranking top remaining RD choices. Kid is already in at selective (t20/25) public OOS flagships. But wanted a "ranking" of top 3 remaining choices - now as of March 1. I wonder if that's why? What does this group think? Do other private HS do this now? Is for WL and preparing to "make calls"? They took notes. |
curious for people who have seniors at some of these HS, do you plan to come back and post where your kid got in (connecting your post to your older post about your HS)? I wonder if things will change this year - so much uncertainty, that old trends may not carry over. |
Has anyone compared a private high school's "school profile" to a public high school's? I mean it's night and day. Of course, the outcomes are different. They almost have to be. |
I'm the OP of that post. I'll definitely update! So far it seems to be playing out similarly, except I noticed more high stats kids (like mine) taking a pass at the Ivy lottery and locking in with ED to a non-Ivy. |
My kids was a top 10% high stat kid no hook. Accepted off waitlist to an Ivy (husband and mine Alma Mater). But ended up going to a t50 (at the time) Private in the west coast instead. We were really upset but it was his decision. It ended up being the right fit. He is now going back to our Alma Mater for Law School. |
The top stats kids at our Philly burb public usually do really well, but in regular decision, not early. Three - four every year to Penn (it's clear our school has a relationship with them), 2-3 to HYP, then a smattering of Cornell, Northwestern, Chicago. These days, the kids seem to be applying to fewer reaches and being okay with attending Penn State (usually in the honors program). |
Can people come back and post their senior's results this year - along with your HS "levels"? Are they holding up this year or not? |
Lol these Duke lovers they are on like every single damn thread |
Doesn't take long. -not a booster |
Hoping people come back and find their post and tell us outcomes or results?
NYC mom, are you here? |
I think this one is mine. Sounds right. Midwest selective private. Accurate(ish) for my kid. High GPA, national level ECs/hook (tier 1 EC), top LOR (best of my career) for primary subject but test optional/niche humanities major: - admitted to a school in the 2nd row, - WL in the third row, - admitted to one school in the fourth row/WL at another, and - admitted to two schools in the last row. |
You clearly don’t go to a private school. Rice, Vanderbilt, Emory and Michigan do not take the top of our private’s HS class. Even Cornell. It’s more like top 50%…. |
For all the junior parents, read this thread and realize that your HS is the largest determining factor in outcomes. |
NYC mom! Things played out very similarly to my original post, but overall it was a hard year. I don't know full numbers yet but Ivy accepts seem to be down by a third overall, and it was particularly brutal for boys in STEM. The bright spot was in the T20 non-Ivies, with more high-stats kids who might have tried for Ivies in years past committing ED to Chicago, Emory, Tufts, NU, WASP, etc. It's such a hard and awful compromise to make but for unhooked kids who held out for Ivy REA/RD, the ratio of surprises on the upside vs downside was probably 1:9 - and many of those kids also got straight rejected from what they thought were T50 targets. In other words, statistically these kids DC were far better off taking the non-Ivy ED - except you/they have to live with the "what if." |
Level one: HYPSM, Berkeley, UVA, etc.
Level two: BC, Tufts, Tulane, etc. Level three: GMU, VT, JMU, etc. |